05280cam a2200889 4500 527136386 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780770437558 0770437559 B00DXKJ6IQ Amazon B00DXKJ6IQ Amazon B00DXKJ6IQ Amazon 9fead152-3b8e-4b00-871c-2fbef3394027 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 221286 221286 221286 1355459 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Fainaru-Wada, Mark. League of Denial [Libby] : The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth. Crown, 2013. athletes. pbs. helmets. Neurosurgery. health. sport. brain. alzheimers. football. Neuroscience. medical books. professional football. Suicide. trauma. Public Health. protection. NFL. sports. Medicine. Quality of life. dementia. CTE. brain damage. chronic traumatic encephalopathy. National Football League. frontline. documentary film. concussions. gifts for dad. junior seau. nfl books. bennet omalu. pop warner. sports books. gifts for men. football books. dad gifts. gifts for him. football book. gifts for dementia patients. nfl gifts. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 6316kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Medical. Sports & Recreations. Nonfiction. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The story of how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, denied and sought to cover up mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage   “League of Denial may turn out to be the most influential sports-related book of our time.”—The Boston Globe   “Professional football players do not sustain frequent repetitive blows to the brain on a regular basis.” So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America’s most popular sport. That judgment, implausible even to a casual fan, also contradicted the opinion of a growing cadre of neuroscientists who worked in vain to convince the NFL that it was facing a deadly new scourge: a chronic brain disease that was driving an alarming number of players—including some of the all-time greats—to madness.   In League of Denial, award-winning ESPN investigative reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru tell the story of a public health crisis that emerged from the playing fields of our twenty-first-century pastime. Everyone knows that football is violent and dangerous. But what the players who built the NFL into a $10 billion industry didn’t know—and what the league sought to shield from them—is that no amount of padding could protect the human brain from the force generated by modern football, that the very essence of the game could be exposing these players to brain damage.   In a fast-paced narrative that moves between the NFL trenches, America’s research labs, and the boardrooms where the NFL went to war against science, League of Denial examines how the league used its power and resources to attack independent scientists and elevate its own flawed research—a campaign with echoes of Big Tobacco’s fight to deny the connection between smoking and lung cancer. It chronicles the tragic fates of players like Hall of Fame Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, who was so disturbed at the time of his death he fantasized about shooting NFL executives, and former San Diego Chargers great Junior Seau, whose diseased brain became the target of an unseemly scientific battle between researchers and the NFL. Based on exclusive interviews, previously undisclosed documents, and private emails, this is the story of what the NFL knew and when it knew it—questions at the heart of a crisis that threatens football, from the highest levels all the way down to Pop Warner. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Fainaru, Steve. https://samples.overdrive.com/presale-placeholder-9fead1?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/presale-placeholder-9fead1?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/presale-placeholder-9fead1?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)